Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 April 2031 at 19:19.
Flower Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2031 after 1 day on 7 May 2031 at 03:40.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1896"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1902".
Lunation 387 / 1340
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 387 of Meeus index or 1340 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 20 minutes and it is 47 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠106.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠106.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139.8°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 27 April 2031 at 10:30 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2031 at 07:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 378 106 km(234 944 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 851 km(225 465 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 23 April 2031 at 20:23 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 May 2031 at 22:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 25 April 2031 at 12:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.107° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.092° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2031 at 07:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 7 May 2031 at 03:40 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.